what's World Build?

World Build is an incubator program designed for ambitious founders and teams to develop breakthrough applications leveraging the World network, which boasts over 38 million users across 160 countries. Participants utilize key primitives like World ID for privacy-preserving proof of humanity verification, World App for seamless distribution and self-custodial wallets, and World Chain for scalable blockchain infrastructure. The program structure includes an online hackathon, an in-person build retreat in Seoul, a virtual mentorship phase with weekly workshops, and culminates in a Demo Day in San Francisco. This initiative fosters the creation of hyperscale Mini Apps that benefit from instant access to a verified human user base, enabling bot-resistant interactions, fair airdrops, and sybil-proof governance. Backed by World Foundation grants up to $200K, global mentors, and ecosystem partners such as Alchemy, Uniswap, and Variant Fund, World Build accelerates projects from ideation to launch, with alumni achieving significant user growth and venture funding.

World Build opened incubator applications March 10 for Proof of Human hackathon startups.